If you’re throwing a block party, you better invite The Birdman. Well, the NBA season is headed down the home stretch and you may find yourself in a situation where you need to attack certain fantasy categories. For those rotisserie basketball guys, you may need to shore up in some cats and ca...

Got an image you'd like to see in here first thing in the morning? Send it to tips@deadspin.com. Subject: Morning crap. Doesn't this picture just require a Commodores song playing in the background? Or KOGOD dancing like a gay chimpanzee? This photo, taken at last night's Wizards game, comes courtes...

Found it, in a box in the attic, filled with mid-80s softcore porn mags containing interviews, book or film reviews, or articles, all by me. (When asked why, back then, I would explain that I sold my first article to a "respectable magazine" who paid 80 pounds for it and never printed it, and my sec...

BOGEYDOM is dark, dim, unclear, indefinite, indistinct, abtruse, difficult to understand, unexplained, doubtful, hidden, secluded, remote from public observation, unknown, lowly, humble, dull, dingy, gloomy, murky… NOW READ ON> So begins Raymond Briggs’ Fungus the Bogeyman. I was remi...

We like rookie Roy Hibbert as a deep sleeper in the second half for the Pacers. (Michael Conroy) Centres Roy Hibbert, Indiana Pacers: The Georgetown alum hasn’t exactly set the league on fire during his inaugural campaign, but he is averaging 8.4 points and 3.8 rebounds per game in five Februa...

Video for Sunspot's song, "Uncanny Valley". Lyrics and more information can be found here. This is our first video with the homemade green screen, so please let us know what you think about it. You can download the full-quality version here http://www.sunspotmusic.com/Uncanny%20Valley.mp4...

We've been wondering this, if only because it shows, yet again, that people who want to live vicariously through their rock 'n' roll idols have been able to since the beginnings of the "Guitar Hero"/"Rock Band" age really can sort of go and gain marginal amounts of fame for it.  Which makes us a li...

Eagles of Death Metal are an absolute favorite of mine. Their latest album Heart On came out in October of last year and I am still playing it at least once a week. It's glamtastic - gritty, dirty and sexy, full of Stones-y riffs and stomping beats. Nothing new, but so much fun it is hard to resist....

  The lead story in the March/April 2009 Industry News section of ONLINE details the M&A activities during 2008 of Morningstar. It goes like this:   Morningstar , a leading provider of independent investment research and famous for its five-star ranking system, has been busily acquirin...

The next Wizards on the Road event is just a couple of weeks away and Dennis Collins, Wizard Academy alum, has generously offered to pay for the tuition of four participants at the Denver workshop.Have you been hit hard by the current economic downturn? Interested in learning how to master the marke...